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What is Organic Farming?

Before the introduction of artificial fertilizers and chemical pesticides, all farming was organic. Booming populations required increased food production, which drove Man to improve on Mother Nature. This led to the widespread use of chemicals in farming- not just the production of food grains but livestock rearing also.

Organic farming shuns the use of those chemicals. Additionally, it rejects genetically modified seeds and organisms, and the use of hormones and antibiotics.

However, this isn’t the sum total of what the practice involves. It’s a holistic system that treats the soil and farming for a living thing; the principal objective is sustainable and compatible practices that make the human race one with their surroundings.

The Advantages of Organic Farming are Countless:

Soil Protection

There’s an entire world of living organisms and’societies’ from the soil and underground. Organic farming aims to safeguard all this to avoid degradation of soil. By way of instance, though nitrogen constitutes 78.09% of atmosphere, it’s not readily available to plants unless it’s fixed in the soil. Restricted soil nitrogen is a large factor curbing food production all over the world. Organic farming uses leguminous plants, like peanut, and their symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing germs to make this happen.

Recycle ‘Wastes’

Substance that was considered waste such as crop residue and farmyard manure and fish by-products are utilized to nourish the soil and the plants. This has the two-pronged advantage of having an environmentally safe waste disposal system in addition to restricting the production of greenhouse gases unlike synthetic fertilizers and their detrimental contribution to global warming.

Maintaining Biological Diversity

Food manufacturing is a big business now. Unfortunately, when multi-billion dollar companies peddle their genetically modified ware, they promote homogeneity and monocultures on a gigantic scale. Experts feel that this contributes to the increased vulnerability of plants to climate change, pests, and disease. The coverage for fitness in nature has ever been to adapt and survive.

Another frightening downside to genetic meddling is the devoted use of one type of pesticide these modified plants encourage may also promote the growth of sinister superbugs and superweeds. This is already an issue of concern.

Livestock Health is Indeed Prosperity

An organic livestock farmer must incorporate systems that adapt the natural behavior and health of the animal. Including access to the outside including fresh air, sun, and pasture for ruminants such as cows and buffaloes, shade, and shelter.

Livestock feed has to be organic too. The manure produced needs to be handled and recycled to get the most out of the nutrients.

Indiscriminate use of antibiotics contributes to the increase of drug-resistant bacteria. This is a continuous battle even at the present.

Ensures the Protection of Human Health

Compounds used in farming cause great harm to human health. Allergies are in the lower end of the spectrum with cancers in the other.

The ill-effects of chemical use aren’t confined to the single crop or a certain crop period. They are a lot more long-lasting, poisoning the soil for several years to come.

Groundwater is also influenced. Water that runs off these plants also carries these toxins to other water bodies. The use of chemicals isn’t self-limiting at all, and it would be absurd to believe it is containable.

Preparation of Organic Products

This is part and parcel of this organic lifestyle. Good emphasis is put on careful processing and handling methods to make certain that the end-product keeps its organic integrity.

No irradiation or chemical pest management methods are utilized to increase shelf life.

It may be thought that thoroughly washing vegetables or grain is sufficient to rid them of compounds, but this isn’t the case. Sprayed pesticides and chemical fertilizers’ sit’ deep from the item, under skins, in the flesh, and found in cereals. Not all them are soluble in water nor are they so shallow as to be washed off.

Humans believe the whole of the planet is at their disposal to do with as they please. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. It’s time to realize that we’re only part of creation rather than the whole of it; if we are to inherit the earth, we have to leave something to be inherited!

Join the movement and protect the environment yourself and your loved ones before it is too late. Buy organic.